Depositing machine



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DEPOSITING MACHINE Filed March 14, 1952 18 Sheets-Sheet 18 INVENTOR AFT/UP A. M0515? ATTORNEY United States Patent DEPQSITDN G Arthur R. Mosler,New York, N. Y., assignor to The Mosler Safe Co., New York, N; Y.,, acorporation of New York Application March 1-4, 1952, Serial No. 276,571

63 Claims. (Cl'. 346-22) The present invention: relates to depositingmachines.

In mercantile establishments, department stores and other types ofbusiness Where large sums of money are received by sales personnel,collectorsand the like, it IS essential that adequate provision be madefor accurate and expeditious accounting for the funds and for the safestorage of the same. In many establishments it is customary to haveauthorized persons make periodic pickup of funds, and for the clerk; toaccount daily at the cash stations for all the receipts. The timeconsumed in thus collecting and accounting for the receipts, wherenumerous employees are involved, may well bevery substantial,

The, present invention relates to depositing machines associated withhigh security safes so that a deposit may be made directly by the clerkand its safety is assured. A single machine can handle the deposits of alarge sales personnel, for example, 100 persons, without making itnecessary for anyone of them to go to a cash station or to be off salesduty for any appreciable length of time.

Ordinarily one of the depositing machines will be mounted on top of asafe at the height where one can readily manipulate it. It may, however,be mounted over a chute which leads to a master or main safe. The personmaking the deposit has no access to the mechanism of the machine, exceptso much as is made available by a key provided the person for thepurpose. The mechanism of the machine is in a locked chamber or housingextraneous of the safe proper so that it can be serviced without havingaccess to the valuables in the safe.

The deposits to be made are prepared by the depositor by aid of adeposit ticket and may include an accumulation of bills, coins, checks,etc. This deposit is preferably in the form of a package adapted to hangdown inside the machine from a suitable support with bag for coins. Itpreferably includes two portions, one to provide one or more receiptsremovable by the clerk and evidencing the fact that a deposit has beenmade, and the other the tally sheet with the actual deposit.

Access to the support for the deposit is preferably possible when anormally closed top door is unlocked by one who has a proper key. Atthis time access to the safe is prevented so that pilfering isimpossible. When the deposit package is placed in the machine, thedepositor can then operate the machine through a predetermined cycle(preferably irreversible) during which the receipt portion of the ticketand deposit portions (both of which must be present) are each marked, asby printing or embossing to show that a deposit was made correspondingwith the receipt, and vice versa, then the lower portion of the depositpackage is severed from the other so that the receipt portion may beremoved while the deposit portion has gone beyond the control of theclerk and cannot be recovered from the safe in an unauthorized manner.During this cycle the severed package is first intercepted so that itdoes not fall into the safe, and

gravity discharge into the safe is thereafter effected,

whereupon all the parts are restored to the first position and the keycan be removed so that another deposit may be made.

The use of a suitable number of these depositing mawith safes or chests,makes it possible to provide local fire and burglary resistiveprotection and to avoid the daily queuing up of clerks who-have had togo to the cash control oliice at the end of the days work to turn in thesales receipts. The aggregate time consumed in suchoperations by asales. force is a. large. factorin the labor cost and. is non-productiveof sales. The machines. to. be shown and described herein are capable ofhandling well trained. personnel very rapidly.

Other and further objects of the present invention will. appear as thedescription proceeds' The accompanying drawings show, for purposesof-illustrating the present invention, three embodiments in which theinvention may take form, it being. understood that. the drawings areillustrative. of the, invention rather than limiting the same.

In these drawings:

Figure. l is a perspective. view of one form of the depositing machine.showing. it mounted on top. of: a safe;

Figure 2 is a view at a small scale showing a clerks. ticket or depositform extended or flat;

Figures 3-6 are diagrammatic views. illustrating significant positionsof the deposit package (including clerks ticket with bills, coins,checks, etc.) during the cycle of operations, Figure 3 showing theticket and filler in initial position and the printing, cutting andejection devices in the home position of rest, Figure 4 showing theprinting and cutting partly executed, Figure 5 showing the printing andcutting completed and the ejector device in position for action, andFigure 6 showingprinting, cutting and ejection devices in the originalposition of Figure 3, the receipt stubs still in the initial positionand the remainder of the ticket and the filler falling into the safe;

Figure 6a is an elevational view at a small scale of the machine. takenfrom the left, the top or door carrying plate being removed and showingin single line outline the enclosing housing with the top cover opened;

Figure 7 is a front elevational view of one form of the machine, exceptfor the housing whigh is in section, the machine being in idle positionand completely locked;

Figure 7a is a fragmentary View illustrating the initial movementseffected by turning the clerks key in'the'lock;

Figure 7b is a similar view with carriages slightly moved and the keyautomatically locked against removal;

Figure 7c is a section taken on the. line 7c -7c' of Figure 7b; I

Figure 8 is a view similar to Figure 7 with parts of the machine insection on the line 8-8 of Figures 16 and 22, the machine being unlockedfor operation by the'c'lerk, the pull carriage in extreme left positionand the'cutting carriage released and on its way back to the Homeposition;

Figure 8a is a fragmentary View of the top door release mechanism innormal or locked position; k

Figure 8b is a fragmentary view of the top door release mechanism in anintermediate positioirofthe key during unlocking, the top door havingopened; i

Figure 8c is a section along the line -80 of Figure 8b; 'i i i Figure 9is a top plan view of the machine with the top plate in position andshowing in full lines the door thereon latched closed, and in dot anddash line the .door opened;

Figure 10 is a fragmentary inverted plan view of the top plate and topdoor, latched closed; I

Figures 11 and 12 are fragmentary top plan views showing, respectively,the closing of the top door durin the forward movement of the carriageand the resetting of the door closing latch during the return of thecarria ge;

Figure 13 is a fragmentary sectional viewon the line 3*13 fF ure iFigure 14is a top plan view of the machine with a fragment of the topdoor in 01 641 position and the top plate otherwise removed, the machinebeing unlocked by the clerk, the parts in the initial or homeposition,and the front wall only of the housing being in section on the line 141.4 of Figure 6a; 4 V

Figure 15 is a top plan view similar to Figure 14, illustrating thecutting and pull carriage and associated parts moved far enough to theleft .tobe in the position for printing and severing;

Figure 16 is a top plan view, similar to Figures 14 and 15, butillustrating the carriage in the extreme left posi tion and the printingand cutting devices in position for return clear of the ticket;

Figure 17 is a fragmentary top plan view with parts removed, showing thecarriage lock in the initial position (Figure 7);

Figures 18 and 19 are views similar to Figure 17 showing in Figure 18the cutting carriage stop lock held open by the ticket to allow thecarriage to move further to the left, and Figure 19, the same in theabsence of a ticket and engaged to stop further movement of thecarriages;

Figure 20 is a vertical section on the broken line 20-20 of Figure 18;

Figure 21 is a vertical sectional view through the locked housing takenfrom the left and showing parts of the machine in elevation beyond theleft frame plate and parts in section;

Figure 22 is an enlarged vertical cross-section on the broken line 22-22of Figure 7 to show the cutting carriage in section;

Figure 23 is an enlarged vertical cross-section taken on the broken line23-23 of Figures 7 and 9 to show the pull carriage in section;

Figure 24 is a fragmentary section view on the line 24-24 of Figure15'to show the inking and printing rollers;

Figure 25 is a section on the line 25-25 of Figure 15 showing theassembly of the oscillatory carrier for the printing roller and thecutter;

Figure 26 is a section on the line 26-26 of Figures 7, 8 and 21 showingthe ejector in extreme and intermediate positions;

Figure 27 is a fragmentary front view similar to Figure 7 showing amodified form of construction in which the lock opened by the clerks keyis on the pull carriage and unlocked, and having a modified form ofpackage feeler, the parts also being in dot and dash lines in positionfor release of the pull carriage from the cutter carriage due to absenceof a complete deposit package;

Figure 27a is a front elevational view of the housing for the machine ofFigure 27;

Figures 28 and 28a are vertical sections on the line 28-28 of Figure 27;

Figure 29 is a fragmentary vertical section on the line 29-29 of Figure27 showing the carriage in the released position corresponding with thedot and dash position of Figure 27;

Figure 30 is a fragmentary section on the line 30-30 of Figures 27 and28 with the parts in idle position; and in dot and dash lines in thepositions assumed when the package is present and the carriages moved;

Figure 31 is a fragmentary section on the line 31-31 of Figure 29showing in full lines the ejector fingers in position to trip the pullcarriage;

Figure 32 is a fragmentary section on the line 32-32 of Figure 31;

Figure 33 is a fragmentary section on the line 33-33 of Figure 28showing the lock in unlocked position in full lines and in lockedposition in dotted lines;

Figure 34 is a fragmentary top plan view of the lock mechanism actuatedby the clerks key;

Figures 35 and 36 are front and rear views, respectively, of a modifiedform of deposit machine with the operating handle in full lines in thenormal position of rest and in dot and dash lines at its other extremeposition, the housing being in section;

Figure 37 is a vertical sectional view taken on the line 37-37 ofFigures 35 and 38, the parts being in the position taken when no depositpackage is present;

Figures 38 and 39 are top plan views of the machine with parts insection on the line 38-38 of Figures 36 and 37, Figure 38 showing infull lines the cutting and printing or embossing mechanism in idleposition, and in dot and dash lines the farthest movement possible ofthe same in the absence of a deposit package, Figure 39 showing theprinting and cutting mechanism in the extreme left position and theclerks receipts in position;

Figure 40 is a top plan view of the housing taken in the direction ofthe arrow 40, Figures 35, 36 and 37;

Figure 41 is a vertical sectional view at an enlarged scale, taken onthe line 41-41 of Figure 38, with a deposit package in place;

Figure 42 is a fragmentary horizontal sectional view on the line 42-42of Figure 37, showing a deposit package in place and the ejector fingersin various positions assumed during the cycle of operations;

Figure 43 is a vertical section on the line 43-43 of Figures 37 and 39,with the carriage in the extreme left 4 in full lines and in the extremeright in dot and dash lines;

Figure 44 is a fragmentary vertical section on the line 44-44 of Figure37, the parts also being shown in dotted lines in the extreme leftposition of the cutter carrrage;

Figures 45 and 46 are front and rear elevational views respectively of astill further modified form of construction with the parts in the normalposition in full lines and in the other extreme position in dot and dashlines;

Figure 47 is a vertical section on the line 47-47 of Figures 45 and 46and 50;

Figure 48 is a fragmentary sectional view at a larger scale than Figure47, showing a package inserted and the printing roller advanced toprinting position;

Figure 49 is a horizontal sectional view on the line 49-49 of Figures 45and 47;

Figures 50 and 51 are top plan views with the cover removed and partsbroken away, the cutter and printer being in the normal position inFigure 50 and in the other extreme position in Figure 51; and

Figure 52 is a section on the line 52-52 of Figure 50.

The diagrammatic showing of Figures 16 Figure 1 indicates at A a safehaving the usual door and safe-door locking mechanism. The safe has anentrance opening for the deposits, for example, the hole indicated at A,Figures 3-6. Mounted on top of the safe A is the depositing machine B,to be discussed hereinafter in detail.

The operating mechanism of the depositing machine is in a metal box orhousing C with a hole in the bottom aligned with the hole in the safe.The housing is secured to the safe and the depositing machine isremovably secured in the housing. The housing has a hinged cover Cprovided with a key operable master lock C" and having a hole C throughwhich protrudes a ticket guide and ticket holder D having ticketengaging means in the form of studs D'D. The front of the housing has ahorizontal slot E through which extends a carriage operating handle G.The front also has an opening H to permit insertion of a clerks key.When this key is inserted and turned, as will be set forth below, a topdoor in front of the ticket holder opens.

One form of ticket or deposit form is illustrated at T in Figure 2 andshown in detail in my application Ser. No. 276,572 filed concurrentlyherewith. The ticket is made of medium weight paper stock of suitablewidth and length (for example 3% x 18"). At the upper end, it has twoholes T, T spaced the same as the studs D, D and perforation T betweenthese holes so that two receipts T and T may be had after the deposit iscompleted. It may be notched as indicated at T It is provided withblanks for the clerk making the deposit to fill in and sign, has a foldline T and carries three printed numbers for identification of thedeposit, the clerks receipt T and of the cash control box receipt T Thenumbers on the deposit end of the ticket are spaced below the numbers onthe receipt stub.

When the clerk is to make a deposit, all details necessary foraccounting control and itemization of receipts, such as bills, coins,checks, etc. are entered on the front, the ticket signed and the lowerend of the ticket folded onto the deposit and secured to the front orback by strips of gummed paper T 6 attached as indicated in Figure 3.The deposit package is then lowered through the open hole C in the topof the housing, and hung on the pins D, D. It extends down past pressureblocks P, P and is to the left of a printing or embossing roller R, arotary cutter K and ejector fingers, one of Which appears at F.

After unlocking the machine and placing the deposit on the pins D, D,the clerk shifts the grip or operating knob G to the left and thiscarries with it, as shown in Figures 4 and 5 and as it will be furtherexplained, the printing roller R, cutter K and ejector F. The rollermakes an impression below the receipt numbers and above the numbers atthe end of the ticket to be deposited (for example the name of thestore); the cutter severs the ticket. after printing, so that part ofthe printing is below the cutting line and part above it. The fingers Fof the ejector yield and pass over the ticket. After severing, thedeposit drops away from the ticket stubs T T At the end of the leftwardstroke, the roller R, cutter K and ejector F are released, as will beexplained, and

